SOMA Laboratory has reissued the LYRA-4 ‘organismic synthesizer’, the ‘younger sister’ to their LYRA-8 synth.
Here’s what they have to say about the LYRA-4:
“Organismic means that LYRA uses some principles that lie in the base of living organisms. The way how LYRA’s modules interacting between each other and the behaviour of the instrument resembles a live conversation.
It’s smaller and weighs less, but is equally rugged in design, and still packs a lot of punch. This makes it easy to fit in a backpack and perfect for taking the LYRA sound on the road. And playing two LYRA-4s can actually sound very different than just one LYRA-8.”
Pricing and Availability:
The SOMA Laboratory LYRA-4 is available now for 360 Euros, or 580 Euros for 2 instruments.
That’s awful. Those things need filters in the feedback path, at minimum.
SOMA Laboratory has my full support bruv
I wish SOMA Laboratory would have been trying to make this instrument more useful for traditional musicians with the option to control it externally….
I could imagine that I would get fast bored with the control options this offers, unfortunately.
In my experience one doesn’t become bored because just the slightest change in a dial — especially in the delay and LFO sections — changes the result significantly.
That said, my issue with these instruments is that the core screamy-sound of the oscillators is unpleasant (to my ears). The advice from Voskomm above seems right to me — filters in the feedback path.